Coder Catchup

https://letsencrypt.org/ Let’s Encrypt is a new Certificate Authority: It’s free, automated, and open. Free SSL Certificates for all Move the web forward, trying to make https the default for a more secure and private internet No wildcard certs, dang Support, basically all the browsers, anything on XP though is a different story, it will not accept the intermediate cert. Setup is easy, clone the tool, run the auto script (ACME client, https://github.com/letsencrypt/letsencrypt), enter the domain(s) you wish to have certs for and you are done. Add your SSL information to your web server config and happy secure https days. While in beta, certs will need to be renewed every 90 days When it was in the limited beta, over 26k certs were issued, it seems that should be enough to nail down all the things for a public beta The key principles behind Let’s Encrypt are: Free: Anyone who owns a domain name can use Let’s Encrypt to obtain a trusted certificate at zero cost. Automatic: Software running on a web server ca

A walk through of why you should be having a good long look at VIM as your text editor of choice.

Find the physical and digital editions here http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031123.do http://www.amazon.com/CSS-Secrets-Solutions-Everyday-Problems/dp/1449372635 Find Lea at http://lea.verou.me/ Find Lea on https://twitter.com/LeaVerou https://github.com/LeaVerou Some other great resources by Lea Verou http://lea.verou.me/css3-secrets/#intro http://lea.verou.me/more-css-secrets/#intro

Drupal 8 drupa.org Better authoring (in-line, context based editing, WYSIWYG editor) Responsive all the things (Admin UI responsive, mange content on any screen size) Flexible Content Delivery (RESTful API, content as a service, pull content into the system, now you can have content back-end with a flexible front-end) Views in core A bunch of pretty much always installed contrib modules in core Comprehensive content modeling out of the box with entities, fields, and views Customization of content pages and even forms and administrative pages via the administrative interface Full translatability and localization out of the box Reliable configuration management for safe and straightforward deployment of changes between environments Mobile-first, responsive, HTML5 output REST-first native web services Enhanced accessibility and WAI-ARIA compliance Modern PHP standards and practices, with integration of popular libraries such as Composer, Symfony2, Guzzle, and Twig Significantly improved front-end performance ou

Jaymie Jones explores the one simple secret to getting things done and it is surprisingly simply, easy and effective.

A casual chat with Jordan Gardiner about his 10 day trip to San Francisco meeting with Google, Twitter, Facebook, Xero, Atlassian and more. Insights galore and lots of talk about the culture and how that is translating to the Australian market.

Detectify https://detectify.com/ Detectify is a SaaS based website security scanner that will help you stay safe. We audit your site’s security so you can focus on web development. Automated Run Detectify continuously and after every deployment Integrate with your favorite tools or products 42 Day Free Trial (huge right? but necessary)

What is a platform as a server and why do I keep hearing of this PaaS thing? There seems to be a huge abundance of Platform as a Service or PaaS providers these days, one of the biggest that you most likely would have heard of is Heroku. So what do they offer over everything else? No need to manage security updates Everything is there ready to go Easy add-ons Hassle free deployment Built in monitoring

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It is hard to pick a server to host a website or web application on, so lets run through some of the major options. Digital Ocean (bare bones boxes, teams, many regions, lots of distros, ssh key addition, applications) AWS (full architecture, all the tools in one place) MediaTemple, StormOnDemand (bare bones boxes or cPanel/Plesk GUI admin tools) PaaS (lets talk about this in another episode) Want to try Digital Ocean for free? Use this referral (https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=79f7c8bb0eed) and get $10 off (that is enough for 2 small servers for 2 months free)

https://github.com/imsky/git-fresh Keep your repo fresh with one command. Is it some kind of hax/cheating!? No, its quite simple, keeping your git repositories clean, no stale branches (local and remote), making sure branches are rebased, etc, all contribute to being more efficient.

What is it? It is a task runner written in javascript which is like your little butler on your web projects, doing those repetitive tasks allowing you to focus on building the best website/web app ever. How is it different from Grunt? It is less verbose and uses a jQuery like chaining method Requires node to be installed to run Have a read at http://gulpjs.com/ Benefits Replaces GUI tools for running various tasks (turn 5 GUI tools into a single app to run) Cross platform Add as many tasks as you want Can be run as a once off or continually watch folders/files Recommendations Run gulp through a package.json script Setup image optimisation Use it for autoprefixer Use it to compile ES6 Use it to compile your sass/less/etc files Generate source maps for sass/less Run linters Use it to run a local server, e.g. browser sync (http://www.browsersync.io/) Checkout all of the awesome plugins, there are tons! https://github.com/Pestov/essential-gulp-plugins

Homebrew have provided a document on how to address the potential issue you may encounter due to apples new SIP functionality in OS X El Capitan. Read the details at: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/share/doc/homebrew/El_Capitan_and_Homebrew.md#if-usrlocal-does-not-exist

Heroku Private Spaces http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/10/heroku_private_spaces_private_paas_delivered_as_a_service Node 4.0 https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v4.0.0/ io.js and node.js core merged long term support LTS new stable line every 6 months, one in october, one in april each year. includes a V8 update, so some add-ons may take time to catch up to the new API changes. Wait, Node 4.1! https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/v4.1.0/CHANGELOG.md baremetrics calculator https://baremetrics.com/calculator Is is really cheaper to build the tool yourself? Nitrous.io Update https://community.nitrous.io/posts/changelog-august-20-2015 Saved Tab State, so you no longer have to re-open files you had open in a previous session Added GoLang error highlighting Added the Heroku Toolbelt to the Ruby on Rails, Django, io.js, Laravel, Meteor, Node.js, PHP, and Wordpress templates Added ability to change the font-size in the editor The IDE now removes trailing whitespaces on save Tons of performance improvements inclu

We are crafts people, so we need to make sure we study our craft, hone it and continue to keep fresh with it. So what do we focus on? The tools we use, hardware and software Editor Web Browser Keyboard Where do we start and how do we do it? Make sure your typing is at or above 80 words per minute Know your web browsers tools inside and out, elements, network, console, etc Learn functionality and shortcuts within your editor of choice Start by taking one new feature at a time and using it constantly to build up muscle memory, once comfortable, move onto the next. Summary Make sure you keep up with what your tools can do and how to use those features your tools provide, they should work with you, not against you.

The State of Responsive Images (2015) http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2015/08/the-state-of-responsive-images/ Sys Admin Resources https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin Split Join Vim plugin https://github.com/AndrewRadev/splitjoin.vim httpie (because curl is old and busted) http://bits.citrusbyte.com/httpie/ Heroku Flow Pipelines, Review Apps, and GitHub Sync for Continuous Delivery http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2015/9/3/heroku_flow_pipelines_review_apps_and_github_sync EMBER DATA V2.0 RELEASED AND V2.1 BETA RELEASED http://emberjs.com/blog/2015/09/02/ember-data-2-0-released.html We are excited to announce the release of Ember Data 2.0, the second stable release since 1.13 that includes significant improvements, cleanup, and cruft removal. Open Source by Stripe https://stripe.com/open-source Stripe relies on open-source software and likes to give back to the community. Great resource of their open source projects, some really handy tools here for just about anyone. Autoprefixer 6! https://github.com/pos

Working effectively in and with a team is a must, there is no way about it. Here are 5 of the most important things to consider and do while in a team. Communication Compromise Positive Attitude Pairing Same Page

Testing out the Rode smartLav+ for on the go recording (still working out the quality and such) as well as some updates on the podcast.

Automated Tools https://gemcanary.com/ https://isitvulnerable.com/ if you do not like command line tools There is also the bundler audit gem, but you need to make sure you update the gem often. - https://github.com/rubysec/bundler-audit

Docker 1.8 Release Notes http://blog.docker.com/2015/08/docker-1-8-content-trust-toolbox-registry-orchestration/ http://www.infoq.com/news/2015/08/Docker-1-8 Docker Engine https://www.docker.com/docker-engine Docker Toolbox https://www.docker.com/toolbox The Docker Toolbox is an installer to quickly and easily install and setup a Docker environment on your computer. Available for both Windows and Mac, the Toolbox installs Docker Client, Machine, Compose (Mac only), Kitematic and VirtualBox. What's in the toolbox: Docker Client Docker Machine Docker Compose (Mac only) Docker Kitematic VirtualBox